The cliffs at St Bernards are an active landslide area according to Geologist, Warwick Willmott. “Slope Stability and its Constraints on Closer Settlement on Tamborine Mountain, Southeast Queensland, Geological Survey of Queensland Record 1981/14 Dept of Mines 1981”. His report was heavily relied on by Beaudesert Shire Council when formulating the Development Control Plan (DCP) for the mountain. Was that information and the action taken important back then, but somehow is not now?

This website provides links to websites from around the world clearly showing that the construction of new buildings, elimination of soil binding vegetation, significant car park and building runoff and sewage effluent dispersal will change soil composition and surcharge the groundwater, rendering the site even more unstable. It will also damage wildlife by sewage treatment activation of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDC's).

Treated sewage effluent disposal area

Sewage treatment plant to be straddle this creek. Water level was above the top of the rail.

Destroyed rail. Should sewage treatment plant be in this creek?

Local Giant Green Tree Frog

30 metres from Guanaba Creek

On Guanaba Creek 50 metres from sewage dispersal site

30 metres from creek, 150 metres from sewage dispersal site

20 metres from Guanaba Creek 100 metres fromsewage dispersal site

300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site

300 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site

350 metres downstreamfrom sewage dispersal site

Glow Worm colonies 500 metresfrom sewage dispersal site

50 metres from Guanaba Creek

ENDANGEREDAraucarian Notophyll VineforestABOVEfalls

100 metres from Guanaba Creek

800 metres downstream from sewage dispersal site

Engineers, Bowler Geotechnical, refused to issue a report on the areabeneath St Bernards Hotel as they could not sign off on it as being safe for human habitation. Borehole logs are on Landslides page.

For Scenic Rim Regional Council to approve the application they must 1; Ignore the DCP and the Tamborine Mountain Escarpment Flora and Fauna Report recommendations regarding Guanaba Creek 2; the Willmott report regarding landslide risk at the site and 3; the worldwide body of evidence we have presented regarding wildlife damage, environment degradation, water quality deterioration and how other countries deal with similar developments better than we seem to in Australia. Do they have that right?

Thought terminating cliché’s such as “tree hugger” and “greenie” only serve to deflect proper attention from this serious matter. Only full transparency by Council is acceptable.